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BANFIELD: Teacher Professional Development – More Wasted Taxpayer Money?

February 10, 2026 Ann Marie Banfield

The New Hampshire Learning Initiative (NHLI) is offering a two-day professional development workshop for K–12 science teachers focused on designing a “student-centered, competency-based instructional model aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS),” with connections to Career Connected Learning. The workshop costs $495 per participant and will be held April 9–10 at the McLane Audubon … Read more

MACDONALD: Union Gets Uppity About #WOKE Teachers Getting Fired

September 22, 2025 Steve MacDonald

In the wake of a rise in teacher firings (for celebrating a public execution), the Massachusetts Teachers Association is demanding that districts and colleges defend their educators. “The ongoing campaign by extreme-right conservatives to discredit and defund public education has grotesquely exploited the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to launch attacks against people commenting on … Read more

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Teacher’s Taking Students to Get an Abortion Day and Other Parental Rights Issues

June 26, 2024 Op-Ed

Many Granite Staters have seen the recent report in the New Hampshire Journal regarding the investigation done by the Department of Education of the New Hampshire school teacher who took a student to have an abortion.

Stop Blaming Teachers for the Education Failures at the State Level

July 20, 2023July 19, 2023 Ann Marie Banfield

New Hampshire public schools have been dumbed down for over a decade now. Even before the Common Core/Next Generation Science Standards, the State was using poorly crafted and dumbed-down academic standards for our public schools.

Public Schools and Teachers Are Inherently Political, so Let’s Treat Them Accordingly

June 23, 2023 Ian Underwood

Read this. Then ask yourself: If 70 or 75 percent of parents want (or don’t want) their children to be treated a certain way, how is it that teachers and administrators are able to ignore them? It’s because we pretend that these positions are not political when in fact, they are. So they are protected … Read more

Thoughts on HB10 – Parental Rights. New Hearing Date for SB272 on Tuesday, April 18th

March 30, 2023 Op-Ed

The Parental Bill of Rights HB10 was a good bill, and so is SB272, the Senate version – which will be heard by the House Education Committee on April 18th at 10 AM at the State House.

The Plight of the Progressive Teacher

August 26, 2022 Op-Ed

She will stick with her vision, and if her classes get smaller, well, so be it. True believers do not weigh their truth by popularity.

Teachers Need Parents to Speak UP: What Teachers are Afraid to Say Out Loud

August 21, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Teachers in SAU21 will be forced to sit through a political training session in September. Seacoast Outright will be conducting the training, which everyone is being told, is not being done by a political organization. It’s almost comical at this point that anyone believes that Seacoast Outright is not a political organization.

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Public Schools Should Conduct Exit Interviews with Teachers and then Post that info on the Website

August 18, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

I would propose that everyone begin requesting that the school administration conduct exit interviews with teachers that include a set of questions to help school board members and the public understand why teachers are resigning.

Groomers Part 2: Power Structures

August 6, 2022 Aaron Warner

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire In part 1 of this series, we looked at the common method groomers use to ensnare their victims from identifying and personalizing to love bombing and ultimately enslaving. We discussed the main organizations and individuals who use them … Read more

Blogline of the Day – She said the quiet part out loud (e.g., Parents, back off!)

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 Skip

This isn’t the quiet part yet, but sets the stage:

“Meg Tuttle, president of the NEA-NH, the state’s largest teacher’s union, said it is dangerous to let parents get between teachers and students when it comes to talking about sex.”

Got that?

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SURPRISE: Teachers and Administrators in NH are Not Happy About What’s Going on In Public Schools

May 23, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

There is this assumption that all teachers and administrators approve of some of the shenanigans happening in their public schools. Some might be surprised that this isn’t the case. Teachers are parents too. They see what is happening where they work and where their children attend school, and many do not like it.

Teacher: ” Whose Your Mommy?” – I’m Your Mommy Now!

March 30, 2022 Skip

I keep seeing things like this all the time popping up in reports from schools in which teachers are demonstrably telling students that their parents hate them – so we will be your parents. We ARE your parents – your biological ones don’t want you anymore. That’s the message teachers are sending kids.

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Teachers Leaving Due to Behavior and Violence in the Schools

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

I’ve been warning about the behavior problems in New Hampshire schools. Parents and teachers in schools like Manchester and Nashua have been sounding the alarm bells that behavior problems are escalating.

And You Think That Govt School Are Being Straight with Parents? Not If They Are Being Trained Not To- East Coast Edition

February 21, 2022 Skip

From the mid-West back to the East Coast, here’s another School District telling Teachers to use a students’ chosen pronouns but NOT tell the Parents.

And You Think That Govt School Are Being Straight with Parents? Not If They Are Being Trained Not To.

February 20, 2022 Skip

We have seen stories from all over the country where teachers as caretakers and educators of children assume “possession” of them as if they were their parents. And nothing says “possession” like telling the kiddos to lie to their real parents.

PTO Caves To Gender Warrior – The Father Daughter Dance is Dead

February 12, 2022 Steve MacDonald

This week, we learned that a one-woman genderizer managed to undermine local tradition. She protested the annual Father-Daughter and Mother-Son dances as not inclusive enough. She insisted on a blended affair, to be fair. The sponsor put them on hold pending a discussion and the discussion is over.

In Other Words, Lie to Parents!

January 31, 2022 Skip

The Gilford School Board’s Policy JBAB has a “Privacy” section that assigns yet ANOTHER “Right” to a minor child that tells the Staff to NOT tell Parents about the Transgender Status of that child while on school grounds.

Teachers Don’t Care That You Want to Protect Your Kids’ Innocence.

January 3, 2022 Skip

Above all, good and decent Parents wish and work HARD to protect their children from all kinds of harm including that of being forced to “grow up” WAY too soon.

School Districts are Using Screening Software to Ensure Teaching Applicants Are #WOKE Enough to Hire!

December 16, 2021 Steve MacDonald

As parents push back against the bullying and race-shaming of their kid’s School districts are filtering teaching applicants who are precisely that. Districts are partnering with Teacher-hiring software company Nimble (as in paying them with your money) to identify #Woke Candidates for their classrooms.